Space

Astronauts on the International Space Station floated into Boeing’s Starliner capsule Saturday, becoming the first people to enter the spacecraft in orbit less than a day after it docked at the orbiting research complex for the first time. The station astronauts will spend several days performing tests and unpacking cargo […]

In 1764, Swiss astronomer Philippe Loys de Chéseaux discovered the beautiful Omega Nebula (M17) in Sagittarius. He described it as having “the shape of a ray, or of a comet tail. … Its sides are exactly parallel and quite well defined, much like its ends.” The object’s nickname, however, didn’t […]

NASA will roll its Artemis 1 moon rocket back out to the launch pad early next month, if all goes according to plan.

Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule finally reached the International Space Station Friday night with a “nail-biting” rendezvous and docking, overcoming several technical glitches to accomplish a long-awaited objective for the spacecraft before NASA clears it to ferry astronauts to the research complex.

The tau Herculids from comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann which began to fragment in 1995 may make an appearance on the night of May 30-31.

In 2014, a quite remarkable collage was released by scientists who used NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to image the entirety of the Milky Way in infrared light.

A day after launching from Cape Canaveral, Boeing’s human-rated Starliner spacecraft approached the International Space Station Friday for docking, a major test objective left unaccomplished during the crew capsule’s first unpiloted demonstration flight in 2019. Docking occurred at 8:28 p.m. EDT (0028 GMT).

Astronaut photos of Boeing’s first uncrewed Starliner spacecraft to visit the station capture its Friday docking in stunning detail.

Keep the diary free towards the end of May to witness another very close conjunction between two of the major planets in the Solar System.

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft thundered into orbit Thursday from Cape Canaveral aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, aiming to dock at the International Space Station on a years-late test flight to prove the capsule’s systems before flying astronauts.